Willis Goldbeck

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Willis Goldbeck (born October 24, 1898 in New York , † September 17, 1979 in Sag Harbor , New York ) was an American screenwriter and film director .

Life

At first he worked as a journalist . From 1920 he began to work as a screenwriter. Peter Pan (1924), whose screenplay he wrote, is one of his early works . Around 1925 he was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 1938 he wrote the screenplay Dr. Kildare: His first case . The story became the series Dr. Kildare , for which Goldbeck wrote most of the episodes. He directed some of them himself.

Although Goldbeck directed several other films as well, he decided to focus mainly on scriptwriting. In 1951 he directed Ten Tall Men , a film starring Burt Lancaster , Jody Lawrance , Gilbert Roland and Kieron Moore , among others . From 1955 Goldbeck appeared as a film producer . In 1962, at the age of 64, Goldbeck made his last film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance with the actors Lee Marvin , John Wayne and James Stewart (protagonist lawyer Ransom Stoddard), for which Willis Goldbeck himself wrote the script based on the story of the same name Dorothy M. Johnson wrote and directed by John Ford .

Goldbeck's work as a screenwriter comprises 40 productions, and as a director he was responsible for eleven film productions from 1942 to 1953. In the production area, he has been involved in six films and one series.

Filmography (selection)

All films as scriptwriter unless otherwise noted

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personal data
SURNAME Goldbeck, Willis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1979
Place of death Sag Harbor , New York